The highest mountains in the world are in the Himalyas. Mount Everest is the tallest at over 29,000 feet, approximately 5-1/2 miles. The second highest is K2, also known as Mount Godwin Austen, at over 28,000 feet in height.NotesThe above is the standard information regarding elevations above sea level. However, the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea 13,796 feet above sea level, is a volcanic mountain that rises 33,000 feet from base to summit. When measured this way, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world. Mauna Loa, with an elevation above sea level that is just a little under Mauna Kea, is also taller than Everest. Mauna Kea is the largest volcano in the world, with an estimated volume of 18,000 cubic miles. The summit of Equador's Mount Chimborazo has the distinction of being the point farthest from the center of the earth at an elevation of 20,700 feet above sea level. This is because of the slight bulge in the planet around the equator. Chimborazo is about one degree south of the equator.Away from EarthThere is a mountain, Mount Olympus Mons, in Mars that is 14 miles tall and is over 3 times taller than Mount Everest.
Mount Everest belongs to the Himalaya mountains
Mount Everest is in the Himalayan (Himalayas) mountain range.
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Mount Everest is located in the Himalayan mountain range.
Mauna Kea is 4,205 meters or 13,796 feet high. Mount Everest is 8,848 meters or 29,029 feet high. This makes Mount Everest 4,643 meters higher than Mauna Kea. Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
Mount Everest.
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world.
If we consider the bottom of Mauna Kea to be the ocean floor, then yes, Mauna Kea is higher than Mount Everest. But if we are talking about elevation above sea level, Mauna Kea is less than half the height of Eveest.
mount Everest
The summit of Mount Everest is higher above sea level than the summit of any other mountain, but Mauna Kea is the tallest when measured from base to summit. When measuring mountain summits by their height above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in total from sea floor to summit.Even out of the sea and on land, Mauna Kea still is taller than Mount Everest.
It is an inactive volcano located in Hawaii. It is 4,436 feet taller than Mount Everest.
Mauna Kea it is over 1 lm larger
mauna kea from top to bottom NOT mount Everest
Mount Everest.
no. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. =] No, Mount Fuji is 3,776 metres, Everest is over twice the height at 8,848 metres.